Word: calif
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Brown Del Mar, Calif...
...Torchlight III, the third in a series of dry runs of the Olympic-security coordinating system. But for the law-enforcement authorities who went through the exercise last month, the hypothetical mayhem was serious business. Its aim: to give security agencies, ranging from the FBI to the Fullerton, Calif., police department, practice in operating as a unit before the July 28 opening of the 23rd Olympic Games...
...even losing its supremacy in high-technology goods. Its trade surplus for these products, including computers and telecommunications gear, has dropped from $25.5 billion in 1980 to $17 billion last year. Spectra-Physics, a San Jose, Calif.-based manufacturer of laser equipment, says that its share of the world market for some products has fallen from 75% to 50% in only three years...
DIED. Carl Foreman, 69, screenwriter and producer of such Hollywood hits as High Noon (1952) and The Guns of Navarone (1961); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. After he wrote Home of the Brave (1949), about racism, and The Men (1950), about disabled veterans, his career was interrupted in 1951 by his "uncooperative" testimony at a Red-hunting congressional inquiry. In 1958 the script he co-wrote for The Bridge on the River Kwai won an Oscar, but as a blacklistee working under a pseudonym he could not claim...
...long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel prizewinner's early stories; and, with his pistol-hot band, Sets del Solar (Six from the Tenement), has been galvanizing a concert tour that has ricocheted from Berkeley, Calif., to the Cannes Film Festival and home to New York City. He can also be heard on the sound track of Beat Street, the just opened break-dancing movie, doing nicely by a lollipop love theme. But the best place to catch Blades and his Tenement Six is on their...